Feeling Nutty

I didn’t think I was going to have time to watch last night because I was planning our FL trip for a couple hours and it got very late.

I was drinking green tea all night in my new mug.

Surely I can’t be the only person who gets giddy over new mugs? ;) It honestly made my whole day every time I looked at it. So much better than the brown one I was drinking out of!

However, I pushed my limits with the tea. I was drinking tea until 11pm and then I could NOT sleep for the life of me. I was all wired up on caffeine and Gossip Girl. I finally fell asleep around 2:30 am. Note to self: Only decaf after 6pm!

I managed to have a lovely tempo run this morning despite my bad sleep.

If I only slept 5-6 hours, a healthy dose of exercise usually makes me feel like I actually slept 6.5-7 hours.

The tempo run:

Mile 1: 6mph, incline 2%

Mile 2: 6.2 mph, incline 2%

Mile 3: 6.4 mph, incline 2%

Mile 4: 6.6 mph, incline 2% (I sprinted the last 100 metres at 8 mph)

Total time: 37:57 mins.

I also did 60 lunges on each leg. I felt on cloud nine after this workout. I also got some super exciting news about my best friend and I have just been grinning all day long!

I made this easy nut dip last night. I have been meaning to make a nut dip for ages now and yesterday was a dip kind of day!

Feeling Nutty 5 Minute Dip

Adapted from ‘Rawsome Nut Dip’ from Dreena Burton’s Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan.

Directions: Toss ingredients into a food processor and process until almost smooth. Use a spoon to scrape side of bowl when needed. Serve with crackers, veggies, or on toast. This can even be used as a layer in a veggie lasagna!

Note: Feel free to play around with different nuts- that’s what I did! Try to use more sweet nuts (cashew, almonds pistachios) than bitter nuts (walnuts, pine nuts, etc) for optimal results.

This dip is really good! I toasted up some Ezekiel bread and spread some on and it was so delicious. I also can’t wait to try it as a layer in a veggie lasagna. I have been meaning to make a vegan lasagna for a while. Anyone have any good recipes?

I am also glad to hear that I am not the only photo happy photographer! :mrgreen:

I took about 40 shots for this photo shoot. A bit better, right? ;) I am trying to cut down the amount of pictures that I take because my hard drive is FULL of food pictures. It is actually quite ridiculous how many I have on my PC!!! I just love photography.

I organize my personal pictures in folders by year (2000-2002 are grouped together since I didn’t have many):

And within these folders are sub-folders organized by the event + date:

As for my blog pictures, I organize them in a different folder on my desktop. I organize them by year and then by month (no specific dates). I am hoping to move all my food pictures onto an external hard drive because they are taking up WAY too much space and slowing me down!

How do you organize your digital pictures? Do you put them into one folder or do you organize them by date or subject? What about hard copies of pictures- do you use photo albums?

I am the worst for not printing pictures. I have a gazillion photos on my PC but I never get around to printing any! Thankfully Eric backs up my PC for me.

Have a GREAT one!

If you don’t like who you are and where you are, don’t worry about it because you’re not stuck either with who you are or where you are. you can grow. You can change .You can be more than you are. ~Zig Ziglar

mmmmmmm that dip looks so good! what’s the big news on your friend?!?! are you going to be an aunt?! how fun…i so wish i lived in florida so we could meet :) as for organizing my photos, I do it all in Lightroom and then export it all in files on my external hard drive. That’s just the system that works for me anyway.

it’s so awesome! it allows you to adjust the lighting (brightness, contrast, temperature, etc) for the entire photo and it archives it for you. you can also export into photoshop for more intensive editing, but i usually just use photoshop for sizing :) you should totally get it!

I just organize my photos into blogged and un-blogged haha.. then after they are blogged, I got through about 1x per month and only keep my favorite photos. I take tons of personal pictures, so I would need a whole other computer if I kept every single picture I have taken! haha

That dip looks great! Will have to try it!
I love your mug too. What is it about mugs that makes us happy. Funny,huh?

We take loads!!! of pictures too. Only they are more of our 21month old daughter. I can take 50 and use only 5, so I know what you mean.
We organize them by event and my months, so we can find them easier when we go back to look for one. We have alot of files as well. Photography is wonderful! WE have a Nikon D40 with a zoom lens and love it!

Thanks for your post, once again. Love the new recipes you post. Sorry I don’t have any good enough to share, yet.

Ugh, I’m horrible about not printing out pictures too. Sad really b/c there are some really good ones I’d like to frame. That spread looks great. I made one recently myself and loved it. They’re so easy and tasty!

Just a quick post, cause I’m going out to get groceries, but I am going to make vegan lasagna this week with that ‘Hummnut’ spread and I can’t WAIT!!! I like lasagna with mostly tomato sauce and basil and fresh ingredients anyway [not into the white sauce!] so I think this should be fantastic and rich tasting, yet light on the belly!

What an amazing looking dip!
I store my pictures on our external server. I have a pictures folder, and then sub folders with the date. Then for pictures that I need access to often, I’ll label more specifically like “pets,” “cruise,” “hubski” etc :)

I love taking pictures, though I tend to slow down in the winter. I’m also very bad for not printing anything! I keep meaning to start a little album with our dog pictures (since puppies are so cute. :-)) but I just never have time. And I haven’t found a decent place to print pictures around here!

Love the workout! I think I need to start involving more leg exercises in my workouts since I am not feeling my runs lately!

Hey Angela– I was just reading my new Fitness magazine, and I was reading an article about pushing it too hard when exercising. I read a story about “Angela from Canada,” and I thought, “Wow, that sounds just like Oh She Glow Angela’s story”…and it was you!!! How cool that you got to be in that article!

I tend to organize by date/month and year. I keep all this years photos in files of their day/month, then eventually they get booted into a year folder. I’m pretty good about printing photos as well. Usually about once a year I go through and print off the nice ones. :) I love pictures on teh computer, but there’s something so special about an album of photos… I’m such a sucker for memories. :)

Oh my… my photos are one thing I am crazy OCD about… I organize them by year, then subject and date. And I also print a good majority of them. And I have a mini panic attack if I don’t get them in perfect chronological order…

Seriously. My bedroom is a mess. My bathroom sink is a disaster. But one photo not in exact order by date and time in a photo album? It’ll break me…

I do a combination! I have to have my photos organized by date when I archive them in my external hard drive but when i put them on my computer, I organize them by “event” so like “Miami Vacation – March 2010” (Wish I was on that one right now!) Hahha

I have a feeling I’m alone in saying this, but I delete all my pictures after I post them! I just know I’ll probably never use most of them again, and I’m a total “If you’re not gonna use it, get rid of it” kind of person.

I’m loving all these dips :) Sounds fabulous!!!
And YAY for GG!! Seriously, waiting 3 months for it was TOO long. So glad it’s back :)
I currently have all of my blog pictures in one folder – I have only been blogging a little over a month so mine isn’t too massive in size yet.

I am a mug addict as well. It makes me ridiculously happy to buy a new mug that I love. Recently, I bought 4 new ones and suffice it to say, that was a very good day for me!

I am so impressed with how much you do… marriage, your own business, working out and training, and all the time it must surely take to do this blog + photography! When do you sleep, girl? Seriously, how do you fit it all in? What’s a typical day like for you, timewise? Thanks for being such a positive and energetic example!! :)

I organize digital photos into years and then label each album (wedding, Birthday, holiday etc). I have them all saved on the external hardrive. I also print memorable photos (a couple from each digital album) and put them into cute folders.
I don’t keep majority of my blog pictures.

In a sauce pan, cook up packs of not-beef, and add the jar of sauce, cook at medium. Add chopped peppers, sundried tomatoes, and olives to your liking . Let this simmer some.

Grease baking pan (I use 9×13″ glass) with olive oil. Add a thin layer of sauce, then pasta, then sauce, then tofu mix. Do this again two times, so the tofu layer can be on top. Garnish it with some slices of roasted pepper or olives, whatever you like.

Bake for 30-40 minutes, covered with tin foil. Let it sit for about 15 minutes before serving.

I have taken on the HUGE job of organizing my photos. I will probably work on this more this summer (I am a teacher so I won’t be working). I am taking all my digital photos and putting them on CD’s, labeled and organized by year, month and events. I found this idea in Real Simple…it is a huge job but it will be great once it’s done!